Discussion: Manuel Pellegrini 2015/16

[Happy Feet]

He handed Liverpool the impetus by playing a ridiculously imbalanced side. What compounded it was his refusal to change it after 10 minutes when it was evident we were getting hammered.

A dereliction of duty, paid a fortune and made no attempt to react to whats was going on.

 

[Happy Feet]

Arsenal and Utd were knocked out of the League Cup by lesser teams. We have been beaten by them before. You have t win those games when your focus is on bigger games so it does count for something.

The season has been good to date, but overall there are two phases

1) Start of the season at full strength.

2) The last 6 weeks where we have lost key players and we've ticked over.

That should be encouraging as it shows that there's a clear explanation, but it relies on getting those key players back.

I'm not overly worried about Kompany, because Otamendi has settled in really well, but Silva is a worry.

What has Arsenal and utd getting knocked out of the league cup got to do with it ?

 

[Gorton_Tubster]

Pelligrini might be good in the general management but on matchday we might as well put my wife in the dugout, she would at least scare the shit out of the team into working harder

 

[blueinsa]

Of coarse we win more than we lose , our squad is brilliant compared with most of the premiership. You obviously think Pellers is doing a good job. I believe most reasonable managers would have won us a title with this squad (I know this can not be proven). What I do see at the moment is a team playing very inconsistently and not week to week, actually within a game we can be devastating and rubbish.

What I don't see week in is a team that is pressing with a hunger to win the title moving the ball quickly. FFS we have struggled against Norwich and Villa one of which has 5 points. We have lost two games 4-1. I wasn't at the Newcastle game but was told we were woeful for 45 minutes. IMO it is the managers job to pick the right team, think about tactics and get the team up for every game from the first minute. I don't see any of this at the moment.

I do think he has done an excellent job so far but even I'm beginning to feel the same mistakes are happening far too often and for the first time, genuine questions are being asked and he has to come up with the answers.

There isn't a poster on here happy with Yaya as part of a midfield two yet we still see it and the results of it are the same for the most part and that isn't good enough.

We cant win everything and we cant win every week or even play fantastic every week but to just not show up like we did against Liverpool or see the manager get it as wrong as he did, again is not right.

 

[Lancet Fluke]

Arsenal and Utd were knocked out of the League Cup by lesser teams. We have been beaten by them before. You have t win those games when your focus is on bigger games so it does count for something.

The season has been good to date, but overall there are two phases

1) Start of the season at full strength.

2) The last 6 weeks where we have lost key players and we've ticked over.

That should be encouraging as it shows that there's a clear explanation, but it relies on getting those key players back.

I'm not overly worried about Kompany, because Otamendi has settled in really well, but Silva is a worry.

Clearly we are going to miss Silva when he's out but he does have players of the attacking quality of De Bruyne and Yaya who can play in his position in his absence. The way people talk you'd think he was having to rely on the likes of Danny Drinkwater to try and stay top of the league. Oh wait a minute.

 

[waspish]

The main problem is, is the way we play attacking which is great but when you have injuries you have compromise. That team Saturday was the wrong line up in the way we play but if Pellegrini was a manager who thinks hey lets work on playing more defensively sit back defend and hit them on the break or hit a long diagonal ball for Aguero or Sterling to run on to.. As a club and manager you can't just have 1 way of playing.

 

[Dribble]

What happened that time pal? Was it Bobby Manc?

Yeh it was Bob. He did it a few times but most famously Robinho came on against Everton away as an early first half sub and was shit so Bob substituted him mid-way through the 2nd half and Robinho ran straight down the tunnel and iirc that was his last appearance for us.

If nothing else Bob had balls and the team always came before individuals. I've just read a report where Gary Neville has said exactly the same thing. He reckons Pellegrini knew he'd got it wrong early in the game, but for the sake of squad unity he rode it out and made the changes at half time, but by then the game was already lost.

 

[blueinsa]

If nothing else Bob had balls and the team always came before individuals.

Mario says different.

Pellegrini got it very badly wrong and i think everyone agrees on that but lets not start making things up ;-)

 

[crystal_mais]

First time I have criticised the boss - he fucked up on Saturday. As soon as I saw that team - I said we were going to get battered and we well and truly did in the first half.

Lets hope he takes note - High press, energetic team will hammer that midfield -

 

[Neville Kneville]

Why are people using this "we're in the qf of the League Cup, in the next phase of the Champions League & may well win the Premier League" as an argument to excuse that fucking disgusting shambolic piece of shit management we saw on Saturday ? Or some of his other fuckups ?

Are people really suggesting that we would be struggling with this squad, if it wasn't for Pellegrini ? That it's only his brilliance which rescued our clueless players v Seville & Borussia, when we were playing like shite & getting turned over ? Or it was his brilliance which rescued us v Newcastle when we were bing ripped apart at the back ?

Really ? If we had Van Ghunt as manager, we would be mid table & struggling to qualify ? Or Koemann wouldn't be able to compete for anything with this squad ? Or Pinocchio or even fucking Martinez ? We'd be happy if Martinez took over & set us up like that v Liverpool, because he's managed to drag us up to 3rd in the league ?

If Kevin Keegan took over this fucking squad tomorrow, we would compete for all the domestic trophies & do a similar topsy turvy job. Mancini would do this or better. So would Benitez or any **** with any half decent managerial ability.

Pellegrini has showed us once this season, what he can do with tactics & nous, away at Seville. That was management, top class, management. The rest of the time, thiis season Harry fucking Redknapp could have done exactly the same job, & we wouldn't be any worse off, at all.

He has at his disposal, some of the best players ever to play in this country. We SHOULD be competing for every trophy, under any manager who comes here. The great manager, should now have us running clear at te top of the league, based on the fixtures we have played. Our loss at Spurs was a fucking disgrace as was the stupidity of allowing a Juve team who came for a draw, score 2 goals without even having to take a risk, to do it.

Any **** could have City where they are now. What he should be doing, is pulling unexpected results out of the bag, not getting fucking hammered unexpectedly.